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...ancestors had moved there from India, part of a wave of migration that began in the 1880s, when the British brought over Indian indentured laborers to build the East African railway. They were followed by Indian entrepreneurs and the impoverished, all hoping to make good in that fecund land...
...Boston Globe reported that Harvard is looking to purchase TV and radio station WBZ’s nine-acre property on Soldier’s Field Road, Allston residents and the City of Boston say they are withholding judgment until the University’s plans for the land become more definite. On Saturday, the Boston Globe reported that WBZ-TV President and general manager Ed Piette said that talks between the University and the station had intensified recently, although they were nowhere near reaching an agreement. The CBS-owned station, which lies a short walk away from Harvard?...
...hold on. Don’t indict me for hating America’s favorite pastime. This Red Sox loathing has nothing to do with baseball hate. And no, I do not hail from the land of the Yankees. Why then, you ask, do I find my college town’s team insufferable...
Racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering, as Sowell explains in another book, Ethnic America. When Japanese immigrants arrived in California at the end of the nineteenth century, the state government forbade them from owning land. In 1942, the federal government forced over 100,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. During the upheaval, Japanese Americans lost many of their belongings, worth around $400 million in 1942 dollars...
...earlier women have children, the less likely they are to earn a doctorate or land a high-paying job. After World War II, the baby boom began a boost in the birth rate and a drop in the median age of marriage. In return, women’s share of doctorates declined. Before World War II, however, women earned larger shares of doctorates than they did during the 1950s or 60s. In fact, women’s share of doctorates hit a record high in 1972—the same percentage it had reached...